Our successes

Our students and alumni create world-class work. We encourage students to go for awards and work closely with industry, as this is one of the best ways to get experience. Here are some of the latest successes, awards, and nominations achieved by our talented community.

2025

Rave on Air

Ravensbourne staff and students take part in the world’s largest ever student-led broadcast - read more

Advertising and Brand Design

Ravensbourne University London students taste success again at D&AD New Blood Awards - read more 

Tulasi Parmar - BA (Hons) Fashion graduate 2024

Ravensbourne and StartUp lab alumna wins Royal Greenwich Business Awards including Innovation Award and Under 30 Entrepreneur Award - read more

Department of Architecture's students honoured at RIBA awards

Nine architecture students recognised at RIBA's London Student Awards - read more

Ravensbourne University London students collaborate with Daniel Eatock for unique Shoreditch exhibition

Group show is held at Art Practice with every artwork created by students from Ravensbourne’s BA (Hons) Graphic Design course - read more

Ravensbourne lecturer helms production design on BBC comedy-drama

Lecturer on Ravensbourne University London’s BA (Hons) Digital Film Production course, Sarah Mursal, is Production Designer on BBC's the Power of Parker series - read more

Ravensbourne lecturer's film screened to industry leaders and student

Dr. Orson Nava has film ‘The Building’ showcased at New Black Film Collective festival - read more

Becky Smith - BA (Hons) Graphic Design)

Ravensbourne University London student wins Kopparberg glass design competition with award of one year's course fees - read more 

Ravensbourne lecturer designs set for Mitchell and Webb's comeback series

Sarah Mursal, recently served as a Production Designer on the highly anticipated return of comedy duo David Mitchell and Robert Webb in their new Channel 4 sketch show, ‘Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping' - read more

Ravensbourne University London students help bring history to life in new Battle of Trafalgar podcast

Ravensbourne sound and film students have played a key role in the production of ‘Great Battles – Trafalgar’, a new podcast series produced in partnership with Towton Audio - read more

Ravensbourne lecturer joins judging panel for inaugural awards

Dr. Orson Nava, Associate Professor in Digital Film at Ravensbourne, was selected to serve as a judge at the Edinburgh International University Film Festival (EIUFF) a new student-led festival aiming to reshape access to the UK’s film industry - read more 

Ravensbourne shortlisted for two Whatuni awards

Ravensbourne recognised with nominations for WUSCAs; the largest annual awards in the UK with the winning universities decided exclusively by student feedback and reviews - read more

 

2025 student successes

2024

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Ravensbourne student wins Kopparberg label design competition

Paige Langan, a third-year BA (Hons) Advertising and Brand Design student who has just completed her studies, won an exclusive competition held in collaboration between Ravensbourne University London and Kopparberg - read more

RIBA Rising Star award

Katie Fisher, a sessional tutor from our Department of Architecture, was awarded with the Rising Star Award 2024 from the Royal Institute of British Architects - read more

Ravensbourne Students win Creative Conscience awards

Four students and a recent graduate from the Advertising and Brand Design course at Ravensbourne University London have won a total of three awards for their environmentally and socially focused advertising and branding campaigns - read more

Head of Architecture awarded Freedom of the City of London

Head of Architecture and Associate Professor Alberto Villanueva has been awarded as Freeman of the City of London by The Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects - read more

Ravensbourne University London lecturer creates Yoshio Kubo portrait for The New Order magazine anniversary cover

Sunil Pawar, Advertising and Brand Design lecturer, was commissioned by Japanese lifestyle and fashion magazine ‘The New Order’ to design a portrait of fashion designer Yoshio Kubo for their anniversary issue front cover - read more


Advertising and Brand Design students win New Blood awards

Two sets of Ravensbourne BA (Hons) Advertising and Brand Design students have won industry-renowned 'pencils' at the 2024 D&AD New Blood awards - read more

2023

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Emma Cheesman - MA Illustration

Londnr 'Summer in the City' competition 2023 (shortlisted) - Read more

Isabella Pavitt, Ella Woodgate and Maksims Julikovs - BA (Hons) Advertising and Brand Design

Creative Conscience Awards 2023 (shortlisted)

Final-year BA (Hons) Fashion students

Present their work at an official London Fashion Week event - Read more

Bewaji Oyesanya - BA (Hons) Architecture

Diversity in Design Gensler Award (Micro prize winner) - Read more

Niamh Bradbury - BA (Hons) Illustration for Communication

Animation goes viral on Instagram - Read more

Benjamin McKay, Charlie Wall-Palmer, Emily Brisius, Pablo Durban, and Reiss Milton - BA (Hons) Advertising and Brand Design

D&AD New Blood Awards 2023 (white pencil and wood pencil winners) - Read more

Paulina Grönlund - BA (Hons) Illustration for Communication

Designs limited edition Kopparberg bottles - Read more

Creative Capital - Ravensbourne student society

Organise and host the National Student Television Awards (NaSTAs) 2023 - Read more

Nico Froehlich - BA (Hons) Photography, graduated 2021

Lens Culture Portrait Awards 2023 (Winner)

BA (Hons) Motion Graphics students

Students designed graphics in a brief set by ITV - Read more

Mary Ashokeji - BA (Hons) Photography

Sony World Photography Awards – Student Competition (Shortlisted) - Read more

Charlotte Regan - BA (Hons) Digital Film Production, graduated 2016

Sundance Film Festival 2023 – World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury Prize (Winner)

2022

2022 content

Em Lemaitre-Downton - BA (Hons) Product Design

Makers & Mentors Design Mentorship - Read more

Soofiya - BA (Hons) Graphic Design, graduated 2013

Educational Writer's Award 2022 (Winner) - Read more

Tyler Evans, Niall Hayes, Harry Lorrell, Louis Morel, Jayden Okeyemi, and Lia Saunders - BA (Hons) Digital Television Production, BSc (Hons) Broadcast Engineering

Employed to film COP27 in Egypt - Read more

Dominic Phipps - BA (Hons) Editing and Post Production

Young Arrows Awards - Best Colourist (Winner)

Beth Roberts - BA (Hons) Editing and Post Production

Young Arrows Awards - Best Editor (Winner) - Read more

Sumayyah Bailey - BA (Hons) Digital Film Production

Enrolls in a Master's degree at University of Cambridge - Read more

BA (Hons) Architecture students

Final major projects featured in Dezeen magazine - Read more

Adam Abouzanad, Crystal Valine Alleyne, Joseph Ariyibi, Em Downton, Sinead Duffus, Ayana Grant, Safiyyah Henry, John Kamara, and Ravinia Rose-Ekwealor

Designed for Nike Jordan in collaboration with the Obama Foundation - Read more

Edwina Arthur - BA (Hons) Fashion Accessory and Textiles Futures

New Designers Awards - Pentland Brands Award (Winner) - Read more

Josh Curtis - BA (Hons) Product Design

PIDA UK competition 2022 - Gold Award (Winner)

Aqib Mirza - BA (Hons) Product Design

PIDA UK competition 2022 - Highest Level of User-friendliness Award (Winner)

Kris Owen - BA (Hons) Product Design

PIDA UK competition 2022 - Highest Level of Sustainability Award (Winner) - Read more

Shania Burrage, Agniezska Cybulska, and Maggie Law - BA (Hons) Architecture

The Concrete Centre Student Competition winners - Read more

Em Lemaitre-Downton - BA (Hons) Product Design

Starpack Students competition 2022 - Silver Award (Winner)

Prabhnoor Singh - BA (Hons) Product Design

Starpack Students competition 2022 - Silver Award (Winner)

Ella Sutherland - BA (Hons) Product Design

Starpack Students competition 2022 - Silver Award (Winner) - Read more

Jakob Timerdahl and Muhsin Uddin - BA (Hons) Product Design

Helen Hamlyn Fixperts Award 2022 (Nominated) - Read more

Ruixin (Lexi) Wang - BA (Hons) Fashion Accessory and Textiles Futures

Graduate Fashion Week - Accessories Award (Winner), The FACE Excellence Prize (Winner)

Raya Totzeva - BA (Hons) Fashion Buying and Brand Management

Graduate Fashion Week - Fashion Marketing Award (Shortlisted)

Tronella Atim - BA (Hons) Fashion Buying and Brand Management

Graduate Fashion Week - Media Award (Shortlisted)

Lawryne Maslowska - BA (Hons) Fashion Buying and Brand Management

Graduate Fashion Week - Culture and Heritage Award (Shortlisted)

Lavinia Russo - BA (Hons) Fashion Buying and Brand Management

Graduate Fashion Week - Considered Fashion Award (Shortlisted)

Edwina Arthur - BA (Hons) Fashion Accessory and Textiles Futures

Graduate Fashion Week - Footwear Award (Shortlisted), The FACE Excellence Prize Award (Shortlisted)

Nuramira Fadzil - BA (Hons) Fashion Accessory and Textiles Futures

Graduate Fashion Week - The FACE Excellence Prize Award (Shortlisted)

Sophie Palmer - BA (Hons) Fashion Accessory and Textiles Futures

Graduate Fashion Week - Accessories Award (Shortlisted), Fashion Concept Award (Shortlisted)

Shilah Tyrell Jackman - BA (Hons) Fashion Accessory and Textiles Futures

Shelter x Graduate Fashion Week competition (Finalist) - Read more

Alessandro M. Raso, Lillian Clark, "Uncle" Callum Docherty, Lydia Green, Yimei Chen, Vanessa Gjini, Weina Zheng, Amy Powell, Rebecca Coad, Linda Mālniece, Esther-Toyin Izedomi, Paola Ramos Contreras, Victoria Ivanova, Dimitar Chochev, Xander Jones - BA (Hons) Fashion

Presented their collections at London Fashion Week 2023 - Read more

Jood Alasfoor, Ivan Donadio, Zain Ilyas, Calvin Kasule, Taohid Miah, Marius Nordström, Petter Ogren, Oscar Sandgvist, Adam Thornell Bergvall - BA (Hons) Advertising and Brand Design

D&AD New Blood Awards - Pencil Awards (Winners) - Read more

Creative Capital - student content creation society

National Student Television Association (NaSTA) Awards - Title Sequence (Gold winner), On-Screen Talent (Silver winner), Mars Elkins El-Brogy Award for Multimedia Content (Bronze winner) - Read more

Ifeanyi Okwuadi - BA (Hons) Fashion

Collaborates with Netflix to design suits for Bridgerton cast - Read more

Ben McKay - BA (Hons) Advertising and Brand Design

Designed limited edition labels for Kopparberg - Read more

Calum Gambrill - BA (Hons) Product Design

Competed as a contestant on Sky Arts' 'The Big Design Challenge' - Read more

Tim Beeston - BA (Hons) Editing and Post Production, graduated 2014

BAFTAs 2022 - Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer (Nominated) - Read more